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It's impossible to overlook how a lot of abled leftists think of "supporting disabled people" as an entirely theoretical act. They think that thinking and saying that disabled people deserve rights is enough to be an ally to the disabled community, despite never actually making room for disabled people in their activist spaces, never taking steps to include and accommodate us in practice, never actually listening to what we have to say about disability and ableism and never even questioning the status quo that keeps us out. At best we get to be distant theoreticals that people claim to be sympathetic towards, but we don't get to be real people IN their communities

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Body positivity also includes people with limb differences and facial differences. For anyone with limb or facial differences I love you. You are beautiful and always will be.

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the fact that subtitles and audio description for Deaf and Blind people respectfully are not standard practice for most forms of audio visual media is honestly a disgrace. like wdym you have millions of money for your film and you don't just automatically make an accessible version?

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straws are accessibility tools that let some disabled people drink . I’m sick of ppl demonizing them

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straws are accessibility tools that let some disabled people drink . I’m sick of ppl demonizing them

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not enough people understand that disability benefits are basically what it would look like if you turned "if you're too sick for school you're too sick for video games" into an official public policy

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Is the person you’re shitting on using AI or are they just disabled?

My partner @jessequinones is autistic and has some learning disabilities that affect the way he speaks and writes, which, apparently, is making some people think the posts he’s writing are AI. I can confirm they’re not, we share an office space and I watched him write them myself. We’re also both vehemently anti-ai in general.

Look, I get it, we have to be vigilant about AI in our spaces, especially in the writing spaces, but please remember a lot of the “obvious AI writing tells” are also common in Autistic speech, and in the speech of people with learning/intellectual disabilities. AI is getting harder to spot, and a lot of these tells don’t even apply anymore, but that’s not stopping disabled people from getting accused, so please be mindful before you start claiming random people are using it.

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I wish wheelchair bound wasn't a point of contention. I'm literally strapped into my wheelchair and so are a lot of other full-time chair users, so while they mean freedom, there's also a high level of restriction and like... actual binding involved and the feelings that brings up. There's a lot more logistics involved in it too, I have to have someone help me in and out of bed and on and off the toilet, into and out of my shower chair that's also on wheels. We need specialty cushions to prevent our skin from breaking down or our bodies permanently changing in a way that causes more pain. Some people have to be moved on slings that hang from the ceiling and can only leave their wheelchairs if they're in a place with ceiling hoists so even routine medical care is different. It's complicated and weird, and a lot of people just don't Get that.

Please don't forget non-ambulatory wheelchair users in your disabled activism.

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Wheelchairs get priority for the accessible spots on public transportations, not strollers, the end.

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I have noticed there are a huge case of autistic people that get labelled with oppositional defiance disorder if they simply go against someone’s orders or are only comfortable in their own bodies and are said to function less than people with far more serious disabilities. I am one of those people because I simply find it more comfortable doing my own thing whenever I’m ordered to do anything specifically by someone? Is this a common occurrence that lots of autistic people go through? It’s so frustrating for me because it prevents me from doing anything I truly want to and I’m always made to look to appear like I’m combattive or deliberately resisting people’s orders when I’m not intentionally trying to at all and don’t like being thrown out of my ‘comfort zone’

This sounds more like possible PDA profile. Pathologic Demand Avoidance (PDA) is a profile of autism, not a diagnosis.

I have PDA, and it sucks. I can want to do something, but if a demand is made of me, my entire brain shuts it down. I get angry, feel attacked, and will outright refuse. I will then do everything to avoid the demand.

Basically, when I want to empty the rubbish, as an example, that is my choice. When I'm told to do it, my autonomy is challenged and my PDA kicks in. It comes off as bitchiness to others, but to me I feel like they're trying to control me.

And as for ODD, it's a contested diagnosis and also targets Black, Latino, and non-white children across the board. I've put some articles below.

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i am so incredibly done with able bodied people. i saw someone park their motorcycle in the loading zone at a gas station and i, in my wheelchair, told her very politely that she shouldn't park there and she started revving her engine to drown me out. i don't know if ive ever been this pissed off at a stranger in my life

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"I'm not one of THOSE disabled people."

Good for you. I am! Get fucked!

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it's crucial that you untie "special interest" from "expertise". "it's true just trust me bro" doesn't have any extra weight when you add "I know because it's my special interest". you are not immune from falling for misinformation, and you are not immune from sharing misinformation. not to mention the fact that "amount of knowledge" isn't even a requirement for something being classified as a special interest lol!

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[ID: text saying "for every ambulatory person who uses the disabled bathroom because "it was just for a few minutes!!" I'm going to whip my dick out in front of everyone and piss on a standing person, amen."]

ah yes, thank you for correcting me. I will now be leaving my $8000 wheelchair outside of a small stall where it could be stolen so that the big one isn't taken. /sarcasm

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BEHOLD.......

The cripple cushion is complete !!! 🎉🥳

I'm glad I made it, and I'm even more glad that it's over 🙃 I'm only half kidding. There are some things that are a bit dodgy and could be done better. Even so, I'm in love with the final outcome, but my fingers, hand, and back are KILLING me. Time to rest, but trust ☝️😌, I will be back on my crafty bullshit.

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the assisted dying debate is so crazy

because i do fundamentally believe everyone should have the right to die when they want.

BUT if they legalise assisted suicide in the UK right now i don't trust our ableist fucking government to not just start coercing disabled people into suicide to save money. they already won't give them enough money to live.

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Happy Disability Pride Month!

Learning to draw signing is interesting because it forces me to draw hands 50 birdjillion times